It comes over you like a dark cloud and stays there peering down at you. You wish it would disappear or at least rain down quickly and move on. It does… eventually. But it doesn’t for a long time. This is my self-doubt. Yours might be different. Why am

The power has been down for the past ten hours. The inverter has run out of juice. The internet is down. No wi-fi. My laptop is running on 43% charge. I am trying to get some writing done. But it is just too gloomy. It has been gloomy for the

Even if I started using computers around age nine at school, we got a computer at home when I was 15. I had heard about online porn from my schoolmates since I was thirteen. Some would go to a cyber cafe to browse porn. But I never dared to watch

I was writing an email. I was trying to sound half-dramatic–half-serious and I got stuck when I typed ‘unleash the passion within’. I paused to think—firstly, how cliched I sounded and secondly, ‘does that really work?’. Does the ‘unleash blah blah within’… really work? Or is it just

I got lost reading some old messages today. So much of our life is being documented in the digital age we are in. The nature of big tech keeping all our data permanently means—setting aside the privacy concerns for a bit—that there will be (already is) so much

The first time I ever had a drink, I was 16. One evening I accompanied my father to a restaurant in the neighbourhood. As the waiter poured beer for my dad, he asked the waiter to pour me some as well. He then told the waiter, “I’d rather that

And why I need to be more patient.